Mothers are always Buddha-wise, kids razor-clever in family matters, and fathers clueless.

Doctors always have stethoscopes around their neck and don’t give harried-shits.

Police detectives work crazy-hours on a single case.

Responding police officers are always sloppy and inobservant until they are killed.

Millennials are fragile and innocent to the world.

Boomers are jaded and don’t understand tech.

Children are tech-wizards. Parents are helpless.

Adopted children are always met with open arms by their birth-mothers.

Writers – don’t allow yourself to fall into these cheap clichés. And if you are given a manuscript with any of these in it, light up the grill and burn it. The world is a wide and wonderful place. There is no reason to walk the same path that others have beaten down.